On the 19th of January, Marloes Oomen (UvA) and Floris Roelofsen (UvA) will give an ILS colloquium talk entitled Polar questions in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). Abstract Relatively little is known about the way(s) in which polar questions (yes-no questions) are expressed in sign languages. It is often assumed that polar questions are…

On the 27th of January at 2:15 pm Silvia Terenghi will defend her dissertation entitled Missing Person: Structure and change in Romance demonstratives (downloadable here from the 27th). The PhD defense will take place in the Academiegebouw. It can be followed from remote at this link. In the morning of the 27th, there will be a…

On the 23rd of February, Lisa Cheng (Leiden) will give a talk for the SIL, with the title: The “lightness” of verbs and verbalisers More info: https://syntaxif.wp.hum.uu.nl/lisa-cheng-leiden-university-3/

On Monday 12, Heather Newell (UQAM) and Craig Sailor (University of Edinburgh) will give a talk with the title Inclusiveness, the Interface, and the Prosodic Hierarchy. Abstract There is a recurrent debate in the literature over whether computation at the syntax-phonology interface is Direct Reference (can see the syntax) or Indirect Reference (mediated by the…

On the 14th of December there will be a workshop on Substance-free phonology in Nice. Program 9:00 am Elan Dresher Some issues raised by Paolo Danesi’s thesis: Trade-offs between representation, computation, and transduction 9:40 Charles Reiss The unnaturalness of natural classes suggests that they come from nature not nurture 10:20 coffee break 10:40 Tobias Scheer…

The Symposium Formal Approaches to Galician and Portuguese Grammar will take place on 1-2 December (so, starting tomorrow). Keynote speakers: Mary Kato Jairo Nunes Ana Maria Martins Juan Uriagereka The full program can be found here All invited! If interested in attending please contact Sandra Quarezemin  for the link.  

Imke Kruitwagen (Utrecht) will give a talk on December 12, with the title Alternate categorization: a formal-conceptual semantics of reciprocal alternations All invited! Abstract In this talk, we present an experimental study that investigates how the different forms of a reciprocal verbs are connected to each other. Reciprocal verbs as hug, fight and collide alternate between a unary collective form…